Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sundarraj Pattilingam, who spearheaded anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh's Bastar, has been appointed National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspector general.
Pattilingam, a 2003 batch IPS officer, served for 12 years in Bastar, where the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist)’s central guerrilla arm was headquartered.
He headed the police there for seven years and emerged as the face of the counter-insurgency in the region.
Pattilingam will take up his new assignment after the Chhattisgarh government relieves him, nearly three months after the government declared India Maoist-free.
